Title:
Carbon Stored in the Root System and Carbon Returned to the Soil: the Case of Cynara Energy Crop
Author(s):
Curt, M.D., Sanz, M., Aguado, P.L., Sánchez, G., Fernández, J.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Energy plant species like Cynara cardunculus L. can contribute to sequester significant amounts of carbon in their belowground biomass and increase the soil carbon content. In this work soil carbon changes are followed up in an experiment designed to simulate the effect of leaving the belowground biomass in the soil after the removal of this energy crop. Moreover the contribution of cynara belowground biomass to carbon storage is studied over two growing seasons in other experiment. The use of the ratio root/shoot to estimate cynara carbon stock is discussed as well.
Keywords:
biomass, CO2 capture, Cynara cardunculus
Topic:
Biomass resources
Subtopic:
Research on energy crops (session 3)
Event:
18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
VP1.3.10
Pages:
444 - 447
ISBN-13:
978-88-89407-56-1
ISBN-10:
88-89407-56-5
Paper DOI:
10.5071/18thEUBCE2010-VP1.3.10
Price:
FREE
